NASA Issues Fresh Demands to IEBC

National Super Alliance (NASA) has questioned the electoral body IEBC over electronic transmission of election results, accusing the electoral body of not consulting key stakeholders in the electoral process, particularly political parties.

While the opposition acknowledged the IEBC’s efforts in fulfilling this requirement by contacting three mobile operators namely Safaricom, Airtel and Telcom to support it the electronic transmission of results, NASA now wants the poll body to listen to the opposition's views as it continues with its preparations.

NASA coalition, in a letter to IEBC Chairman Wafula Chebukati wants IEBC to apply to the Communications Authority of Kenya for allocation of numbers unique to each zone with each zone having its own mobile destination code.

“Each polling station should receive an allocation of only one number,” stated NASA.

“All mobile network providers must, in their contracts, clearly state that no more than one sim card shall be provided for the same number.”

“Mobile operators should guarantee and provide to IEBC more encryption in the sim card software that will protect it from hacking.”

The opposition’s demands comes barely three days after its leader Raila Odinga announced that the Opposition had been enjoined in the Court of Appeal case in which the poll body is seeking to reverse a High Court ruling on the tallying of presidential polls.

On April 4, 2017, the high court ruled that presidential election results announced at the polling station and constituency levels will be final, a ruling a directive the electoral management body wants reversed.

NASA has threatened to boycott the August 8 polls if the IEBC succeeds in having the ruling reversed.

Comments

This talk of threatening to boycott elections.Should motivate even more Kenyans to vote for Jubilee.This is an indication that the NASA leaders are not serious about peace and stability in Kenya.The Kenyan voting public should reject the Nasa Leadership come august.Enough is enough with this their chaotic shenanigans.It is time for these irresponsible Nasa Leader to retire from politics.

Even if i don't and will never support corruption by useless Jubilee govt or murderous NASA gangsters,the monster who master minded the Tokyo embassy scandal,Wetangula lied to mbongo lala Kenyans.He told you that construction of railway costs shs 3m.in Ethiopia.But why didn't he tell you that all LAND IN ETHIOPIA BELONGS TO THE ETHIOPIAN GOVT.So the question of compensation does not arise.Compensation by Kenyans to land owners is almost 70% of total cost for construction of roads/railway/pipeline etc.Can he tell us how much he is expecting to be paid for the Lamu and Turkana land he,Raila,Orengo and other NASA thugs grabbed there?